One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
72
The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.
10
Each year, around 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!
65
A Native American tribe in South Dakota collects bottle caps left by campers, using them as currency. Several banks in the area now recognize the caps as legal tender.
225
The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
100
Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
155
Ice cream cones were popularized in America during the 1904 World’s Fair in Saint Louis when an ice cream vendor ran out of cups and asked a nearby waffle vendor to roll up his waffles to hold the ice cream.
17